“Mr. Prime Minister, can I go to pump to get my water, during the lockdown?”
The art of democracy is measured by the will of its people! People are the principal guardians of democracy, not single individuals nor institutions determine the fate of the institution of democracy! The people determine the strength and the weakness of democracy! I have the greatest respect for Justice Juanita Allan, but she’s totally off. June Sawyer is correct in her article today and I commend her. Our constitutional rights are being infringed upon during this COVID-19 pandemic. The whole lockdown is adolescent and has challenged our freedom. Article 23 of the constitution says that we have the right to associate.
There is a power trip at play. This is not a totalitarian state this is a democratic system. The government has now created a constitutional crisis. There is no empathy in the attorney general’s office and there is no empathy from the police. Is this what COVID-19 is about? Mr. Prime Minister, since you have taken the position of the great almighty man, can we actually go to the pump to get water during the lockdown? You’re telling us to be hygienic, but if we go to the pump are we going to get a ticket? Will we be arrested getting water to bathe our children and to flush our toilets? Even in prison you can get water! This is total nonsense and absurdity at the highest level and this will have serious political and social consequences.
People are going to riot — I saw on social media, a young man picking up rocks and throwing them at the police officers. This is what we are going to bring to The Bahamas too. It only takes a spark Mr. Prime Minister. If anarchy is about, you need a system in play. Thank God the banks will open so that people can get money. The lack of empathy is uncharacteristically Bahamian. I’ve watched Minnis cry for Grenada but why is he not crying for The Bahamas. There is no systematic thinking, you cannot have a lockdown effective immediately.
There is stentorophonic dynamism that is taking place through our land that has all the seasoned politicians discombobulated by the seeds of enthusiasm and the wave of change. The jackanapes are terrified! The morologists are having nightmares at the expense of compromising our constitutional rights. We must recognise what Dame Joan Sawyer is trying to say in respect to our constitutional rights. Our constitutional rights are not defended but the AG’s office, or guarded by the Prime Minister, we the Bahamian people are the defenders of our constitutional rights. She is not taking a partisan position she is taking a position of law. The politicians are elected by us, we are not their servants they are our servants, and I think the Prime Minister’s got this thing wrong. How could you tell me when to get married, how could you tell me when to get home? There is no law ordering that. The COVID-19 pandemic is not going to be solved by a lockdown. The government needs a national testing program and contact tracing, at the expense of the government of course. Numbers go up they lockdown, numbers go up they lockdown again. This is not how a country is run.
It is not even the superego judging the ego. It our own capacity for lack of empathy, increasing until it becomes a kind of compulsion — neurosis where reverence and destruction alternate and we reverently destroy. We deny The Bahamian people their constitutional rights, we have an un-systematical approach to the COVID-19 pandemic, working in the rams of panic creating havoc among The Bahamian citizen. How could the Prime Minister say “effective immediately “ and not understand the ramifications of it? We must be cognisant of the fact that the people voted for the FNM on the basis of the people’s time. Why doesn’t the government pass a legislation on rent and mortgages? Now, people are concerned if they will even qualify for NIB past September. People are living in fear. There’s no legislation and the government can do it just by going to parliament. Do something! We need a rescue plan, not a ticket for going to the pump to get water.
We need a leader who really understands the mandate of the people’s time. We need a leader to defend the young man who goes to the pump for his family to get water, who is wrongfully ticketed. Has the super ego destroyed our leader Prime Minister Minnis ,who used to walk to school barefoot and go to the pump for water himself, the man who claims he’s for the people? We need a leader who understands the people are unable to pay rent, and to accommodate us temporarily. The Bahamian people cannot breathe. Mr. Prime Minister you cried for Grenada, can you cry for the Bahamas? Listen to June Sawyer as she makes sense, your AG was wrong in everything. The old people say “If you can’t listen you will feel”. Nobody in this country loves you more than me Mr Prime Minister, this is not about politics, but you cannot lose the country by default. We need your empathy.
We develop sympathy at the expense of loyalty, I don’t like it. It just ain’t right and the Bahamian
people cannot breathe. Where is the outcry? We have now become silent spectators, eagerly awaiting our daily dose of public scandal, noisy expulsion and excommunication especially from misinformation from the social media.
“A man must swallow a toad every morning if he wishes to be sure of finding nothing still more disturbing before the day is over “(Morley)
We must stop this. It’s not right. The lack of empathy must go out the door. There is no honour in this battle against common Bahamian people during this pandemic. The long lines in the bank, the long lines in the pharmacy and grocery store, this is ridiculous. There is no dignity in this battleground of shame. Only a man, the shield of Perseus against the ghosts of character assassination. The Bahamian people cannot breathe.Whatever is happening in this country we must blame ourselves as we elected Minnis as Prime Minister. “Whatever you blame, that you have done to yourself. There is no hate without fear. Hate is the consequence of fear. We hate what we fear and where hate is, fear is lurking.”
(Groddeck)
According to E.M Forster “If i had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my friend “. It is imperative that Bahamian Cabinet understands empathy. Listen to the noise in the marketplace, June Sawyer is not against the government she’s a legal scholar that should be totally paid attention to. Because once people understand that their rights are being infringed upon and take legal action, there will be total anarchy. You do not want to create anarchy in a small economy; if the people become un-empathic to the government lockdown could you imagine the level of lawlessness that will take place as well as the spread of the virus? It will be uncontrollable. The ghetto is crying for a legislation on rent, and to go to the pump for water during the lockdown. We need the Prime Minister to walk barefoot with us again…with a mask on.
